Searching through the mods on phpBB.com, I found a MOD that says it can modify advanced searching to allow for "search by topic title". Here's the link for the thread describing it, which includes a file which you can DL to unzip and then implement it:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=298529&sid=b36b06f89d7ca1defb4227e50d3e21a9
I'm gonna see if this works on my site so that I can give a bit more info about it, but I know that my site's implementation of phpBB is a little different than that of the Gentoo Forums, so maybe other people can help test it out too.

Well, I actually had to modify my forum to where the process of installing should be fairly similar to how it would be on here, except for the fact that you have to have the EasyMOD plugin in order for the script of the Search Title Only MOD to work. But, since I'm sure you guys are good with PHP and such, here's the text of the script, which should be fairly easy to follow if you wanted to make the edits by hand:

That won't work as our search.php is already heavily modified. I've already implemented a search tittle only option in the new search engine. The main problem at the moment is lack of time, I'm currently working late and at the weekends to finish a project for work. When that's done I can concentrate on the new search engine again._________________Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip

bump!
this topic is now 0.5 years old...PLEASE add this option, it can't be that hard to implement it, but without this option the search modus is often senseless... then the same questions will be postet again and again and everyone becomes angry!!!
please, admins, concentrate your mindpower to relevant things...

bump!
this topic is now 0.5 years old...PLEASE add this option, it can't be that hard to implement it, but without this option the search modus is often senseless... then the same questions will be postet again and again and everyone becomes angry!!!
please, admins, concentrate your mindpower to relevant things...

The post above you is still valid and answers your request._________________KDE 4.14 - Get It While It's Hot!

i knew that an answer in this style would follow... ok, i just thought if someone repeats the request it comes back in the admin's minds. it just seemed to me that the developers forgot this idea/request. yes, now you could answer "Idiot, look at what was written the post above yours: 'I've already implemented a search tittle only option in the new search engine.' ". i just wanted the devs to not forget to generally increase the search engine.
greetz all-inc._________________# make config; not war
registered linux user # 265707

i knew that an answer in this style would follow... ok, i just thought if someone repeats the request it comes back in the admin's minds. it just seemed to me that the developers forgot this idea/request. yes, now you could answer "Idiot, look at what was written the post above yours: 'I've already implemented a search tittle only option in the new search engine.' ". i just wanted the devs to not forget to generally increase the search engine.
greetz all-inc.

Be assured that we don't forget it. We have to deal with the crappy search ourselves every day
Btw., I didn't say nor mean "Idiot" like you quoted above._________________KDE 4.14 - Get It While It's Hot!

this topic is now 0.5 years old...PLEASE add this option [...] without this option the search modus is often senseless... then the same questions will be postet again and again

Have you read any of the titles here? As often as not (it seems that way anyway) people post useless titles (e.g., "Help!!!!!1111")._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.

That won't work as our search.php is already heavily modified. I've already implemented a search tittle only option in the new search engine. The main problem at the moment is lack of time, I'm currently working late and at the weekends to finish a project for work. When that's done I can concentrate on the new search engine again.

all-inc. wrote:

this topic is now 0.5 years old...PLEASE add this option, it can't be that hard to implement it, but without this option the search modus is often senseless... then the same questions will be postet again and again and everyone becomes angry!!!
please, admins, concentrate your mindpower to relevant things...

Still working late and weekends a half year later? If you and the rest of the gentoo developers are that busy, why not delegate the job of modifying the search function to someone else in the Gentoo community who has the time and just check it over when they're finished?

pjp wrote:

Have you read any of the titles here? As often as not (it seems that way anyway) people post useless titles (e.g., "Help!!!!!1111").

Of course, maybe if people knew there were a "search title only" option available, they would learn to better phrase their subject titles.

Damn a community of hundreds of devs and thousands of users who have built many thousand individualized operating systems from source can't come up with this? I know I am not being very constructive here but this bugs me since I started using Gentoo in 2005 and it is still not solved. How fucked up can it get. _________________"You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." --Galileo
expand your state of mind by not watching tv =)
- .... .. ... .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. .. ... .-- . .-.. .-.. .-- .. -.-. -.- . -..

just wanted to chime in that i've been hoping for this feature for quite some time as well. i read the posts on this thread an realize that it is not a trivial matter and everyone is busy, so i'm not complaining; rather, just registering that i've been looking for this 'search title only' feature myself. granted, as was pointed out above, many post with useless titles (e.g., "Help!!!..."), but i'm concerned more with all the false positives of searches that include body text.

a common occurance is when an error (compile or runtime) appears for me in a particular package, and i want to search the forums for others with similar issues. trying to search with the package name creates so many false positives because of the common practice in postings to dump voluminous output (make.conf, long build output, emerge world listings, etc.). these postings contain the package keyword only in the body text but are in no way related to the package for which i am searching. more often than not, however, a posting with the keyword of the package in the title brings me much closer to my issue at hand.

for example, search for some build error message in a hot topic like kde, and the search result shows the 40+ page kde threads--and you have no idea on which page of that thread the search phrase was found--completely useless--unless you have time to manually search each page via fayt...

Also, is there any boolean logic available in the current search? It seems to always do a logical OR--always expanding the search rather than refining it with an AND.... quite the opposite of what would be the useful default more often than not.

I think the amount of time lost because of a poor search function is probably enormous. Not only that, but it incurs a larger load and more hits on the servers.
This forum is a huge resource not just to the gentoo community, but to the linux community as a whole--I'd wager users from all sorts of distros make good use of it frequently.

If these fixes have already been implemented, where are they?
If not, I'd be happy to help fix this.

then downloading the original php2.0.22 from http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=7885&filename=phpBB-2.0.22.tar.bz2 and use a tool like KDiff3 to step through the customizations that have been made and look how each piece of functionality can be either replaced by phpBB3 native features or how that can be customized.. Once you have made some progress i'm sure others will step in with testing and bugfixing. And btw the Gent0o foundation should as well have put up a bounty on this one for encouragement loooong ago.._________________"You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." --Galileo
expand your state of mind by not watching tv =)
- .... .. ... .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. .. ... .-- . .-.. .-.. .-- .. -.-. -.- . -..

I can search all message topics plus their bodies for a given keyword
i can search all message bodies for a given keyword

i cannot search all message topics and ONLY the topics for the given keyword.

This means that if I am looking for information on a problem with bugzilla and search for the keyword bugzilla im going to get every single thread on every single subject that contains a reference to bugzilla. I might as well not do the search at all and just sacn through every thread in existence because either way im going to have to wade through pages and pages and pages of totally unrelated postings.

If i could search every thread in every forum for a TOPIC related to bugzilla this would simplify my current problem enormously :)

Deleted the duplicate and merged the previous two posts. It's unlikely that we'll make any major modifications to the search engine before we move to phpBB3._________________Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip